The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, ...

Actor Lizzy Caplan always thought it was unusual she didn’t know of any relatives who were victims of the Holocaust. In Tuesday’s episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the average running times and complexities of various root-finding algorithms, including the Affine Method (ARM), Sparse Root Algorithm (SRA), and Branching Tree ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo—meeting women and men who crisscrossed the globe to help their families move forward, often taking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The actress was one of two stars with ties to the region (alongside Delroy Lindo) to get a guided tour through their previously ...

The actress was one of two stars with ties to the region (alongside Delroy Lindo) to get a guided tour through their previously undiscovered ancestry with host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And while the ...

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Things got very, very emotional for The Bear star Liza Colón-Zayas when she stepped into the hot seat for Finding Your Roots‘ latest episode, “Caribbean Roots.” The actress was one of two stars with ...

How much do you really know about your ancestors? Maybe you know what countries they came from, what languages they spoke or what tribes they belonged to. But the details that help us understand ...